Leah’s Cafe

We lived very near a private hospital and can hear the ambulances drove us by throughout the day and even in the middle of the night. Sometime I wondered who were these patients being ferried on the ambulances, were they old folks who had strokes or young people who got into auto accidents?

Can you imagine the critical situations that the paramedics on this ambulances often face? Don’t you think it takes a lot to handle everything professionally and act fast all the time? The strange thing is: we often hear young people wanted to be doctors and nurses, seldom paramedics. Do you know of anyone who aims to be a paramedic?

Even in the TV series “Saved” that supposedly based on stories of paramedics, lead character Wyatt Cole (Tom Everett Scott) was a doc dropout. Wyatt’s dad (David Clennon) is a doc who wants to see his son go back to medical school. Wyatt does consider it, but he can be heard bragging to docs,

“We do everything you do, we just do it at 60 mph.”

TV of course doesn’t portray real life, every show needs gimmicks, and “Saved” has a pretty decent one to demonstrate how folks in need of urgent medical care sustained their injuries.:-)

Paramedics and emergency medical workers who are seeking ACLS recertification of course do not get their training by watching the TV dramas. :-) In fact, the National Paramedic Institute does provide training and educational programs for first-responders, paramedics and emergency medical technicians, they have videos and films that re-enact the real emergency situation by the real emergency personals as part of a subscription training series. Paramedics and emergency workers then can be trained to deal with all kind of challenging, confusing or unusual medical issues.